CI SFO/JFK/LAX -AKL PE and business class 1775 USD
Jun 11, 2016, 9:03 pm
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CI SFO/JFK/LAX -AKL PE and business class 1775 USD
China airlines is offering premium economy (Pretty good one too) to Taipei from USA and then business class from Taipei to Auckland. Its possible it works to Sydney/Brisbane too.
This is from the online CI website.
This is from the online CI website.
Jun 11, 2016, 11:47 pm
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Jun 12, 2016, 1:37 am
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Well yes even to Asia its pretty good value. But i mentioned SYD/BNE/AKL because these are between 8-13hr flights in total. So if you wanted to book a return business class seat from Australia to asia it will cost like 3000 usd. I am still waiting for the AMS PE to become available for some runs next year and pick up the bonus miles they probably will have with it.
Jun 12, 2016, 1:45 pm
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Most economy fares only earn 25% or so; but if you mainly fly short haul or on premium tickets, it's a great deal. Redemption wise; you can only really redeem them for US-EU redemptions. Just FYI, the bolded parts were worded strangely; I thought you were talking about AF W/PE.
Jun 12, 2016, 2:12 pm
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FB miles are generally not very useful unless you are based in Europe; in which case their promo awards in J are steals.
Most economy fares only earn 25% or so; but if you mainly fly short haul or on premium tickets, it's a great deal. Redemption wise; you can only really redeem them for US-EU redemptions. Just FYI, the bolded parts were worded strangely; I thought you were talking about AF W/PE.
Most economy fares only earn 25% or so; but if you mainly fly short haul or on premium tickets, it's a great deal. Redemption wise; you can only really redeem them for US-EU redemptions. Just FYI, the bolded parts were worded strangely; I thought you were talking about AF W/PE.
Wasn't that clear, I apologized for it. The reason why I talked about DL was two things. 1. Their FFP, and 2. their comparable price of NYC-SYD/AKL. In the price of $1800 RT, you can get their PE (Comfort+) seats all the way through, but of course you will get less RDMs (MQDs), less MQMs. Even CI TPE-BNE-AKL is J instead of PE, and with that much of the MQDs (26k flown miles * 20%), it would be night and day between CI and DL in this particular deal.
AF PE? Oh boy, highly doubt they would be willing to compete by allowing three long haul PEs to get people to Oceania for $1800.
Jun 12, 2016, 2:32 pm
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If I look at this deal I might really consider crediting them into AF FB. I thought they are good in terms of redeeming F seat out of CDG?
Wasn't that clear, I apologized for it. The reason why I talked about DL was two things. 1. Their FFP, and 2. their comparable price of NYC-SYD/AKL. In the price of $1800 RT, you can get their PE (Comfort+) seats all the way through, but of course you will get less RDMs (MQDs), less MQMs. Even CI TPE-BNE-AKL is J instead of PE, and with that much of the MQDs (26k flown miles * 20%), it would be night and day between CI and DL in this particular deal.
AF PE? Oh boy, highly doubt they would be willing to compete by allowing three long haul PEs to get people to Oceania for $1800.
Wasn't that clear, I apologized for it. The reason why I talked about DL was two things. 1. Their FFP, and 2. their comparable price of NYC-SYD/AKL. In the price of $1800 RT, you can get their PE (Comfort+) seats all the way through, but of course you will get less RDMs (MQDs), less MQMs. Even CI TPE-BNE-AKL is J instead of PE, and with that much of the MQDs (26k flown miles * 20%), it would be night and day between CI and DL in this particular deal.
AF PE? Oh boy, highly doubt they would be willing to compete by allowing three long haul PEs to get people to Oceania for $1800.
I managed to snag one awhile back. Can't see myself redeeming for AF P when I can redeem for AF J for a third of the miles.
Haha I just inferred that from what you mentioned; and besides, they don't fly to Oceania on their metal.
Jun 12, 2016, 2:54 pm
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Yes; but I found them to be over priced. 200k miles o/w from Europe-North America and 320k miles Europe-Asia. Especially since you can snag ex-EU tickets in the 4-5k range RT for P and even from Paris http://www.airfrance.fr/FR/en/local/...a-premiere.htm
I managed to snag one awhile back. Can't see myself redeeming for AF P when I can redeem for AF J for a third of the miles.
Haha I just inferred that from what you mentioned; and besides, they don't fly to Oceania on their metal.
I managed to snag one awhile back. Can't see myself redeeming for AF P when I can redeem for AF J for a third of the miles.
Haha I just inferred that from what you mentioned; and besides, they don't fly to Oceania on their metal.
https://www.flyingblue.com/long-haul...longhaul8.html
Even to Asia 1/2 is 100k? That's gonna kill me.
My flying patterns, after the announcement of AAdvantage news of revenue-based model, will switch to occasional F/J and some Y. Will be like you, getting BA Gold with US Domestic F, and grab whatever the good fare is around. Can sometimes see $2.2-$2.5k for YYZ-HKG in AF J, which is a great deal.
Looking further and further away from domestic upgrades, except UA ones
Jun 14, 2016, 2:25 pm
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One-way? Wow that's steep!
https://www.flyingblue.com/long-haul...longhaul8.html
Even to Asia 1/2 is 100k? That's gonna kill me.
My flying patterns, after the announcement of AAdvantage news of revenue-based model, will switch to occasional F/J and some Y. Will be like you, getting BA Gold with US Domestic F, and grab whatever the good fare is around. Can sometimes see $2.2-$2.5k for YYZ-HKG in AF J, which is a great deal.
Looking further and further away from domestic upgrades, except UA ones
https://www.flyingblue.com/long-haul...longhaul8.html
Even to Asia 1/2 is 100k? That's gonna kill me.
My flying patterns, after the announcement of AAdvantage news of revenue-based model, will switch to occasional F/J and some Y. Will be like you, getting BA Gold with US Domestic F, and grab whatever the good fare is around. Can sometimes see $2.2-$2.5k for YYZ-HKG in AF J, which is a great deal.
Looking further and further away from domestic upgrades, except UA ones
Looking out for good premium fare is around seems to be the pragmatic approach these days; even when flying domestically.
Jun 14, 2016, 9:10 pm
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The 100k figure is actually decent. For the route I frequent(AMS-CDG-SIN), I need about 6 1/2 I segments for an award. Award availability is usually very good about a week out whenever I need it.
Looking out for good premium fare is around seems to be the pragmatic approach these days; even when flying domestically.
Looking out for good premium fare is around seems to be the pragmatic approach these days; even when flying domestically.
Btw, the beauty of this CI fare is it allows stopovers both ways in TPE. Booking stopovers is tricky, but quite doable. Damn! Very tempting.^